Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1760 Scott Adams： Come Diagnose My Opinions As COVID-Addled Or Brilliant. I Need Help

00:00:00.000 Oh, good morning, everybody, and welcome to either the best show in the history of civilization

00:00:10.000 or an embarrassing COVID-addled brain demonstration that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

00:00:18.820 It's going to be one of those two things, and you, ladies and gentlemen, and everything

00:00:23.240 in between, you are the judges and the juries for this presentation.

00:00:27.800 This will not be a normal live stream, no.

00:00:32.460 Today, you are the judge to see if my brain fog from my COVID has lifted yet.

00:00:39.660 You will be the judge because you know who can't tell?

00:00:42.940 Me.

00:00:44.280 So will I produce my usual superb analysis and clearly demonstrate that my brain is working

00:00:52.160 at 100%, or will it be lacking a little bit?

00:00:55.920 Those of you who have watched me a little while, you be the judge.

00:01:00.580 Today will be the test.

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00:01:27.600 Ah, yes.

00:01:36.600 Well, catching you up, if you did not know, I tested positive for COVID on Saturday.

00:01:43.620 Today is Tuesday, and I thought I'd give you an update.

00:01:46.780 And so, just before I came on here, I took another test to see if I still have the COVID.

00:01:57.000 Does anybody want to look at this test and tell me the answer?

00:02:00.600 Because I couldn't see it from where it was laying there.

00:02:04.180 All right.

00:02:05.240 Somebody?

00:02:05.980 I'm going to show it to the locals people first.

00:02:08.840 All right, locals.

00:02:09.420 Oh, yeah, that's not just COVID.

00:02:20.780 That line is so strong, it's like super COVID.

00:02:25.100 I believe I have now passed into some kind of ultra COVID situation.

00:02:31.280 You know, ultra MAGA was impressive, but ultra COVID, boom, that's what I got.

00:02:39.660 Stay away.

00:02:40.640 Stay away.

00:02:41.800 Stay away.

00:02:43.120 Now, when I want to not spend time around people, instead of making excuses, like, oh, I have to work, or, you know, whatever.

00:02:52.920 I'll just take this out.

00:02:54.060 This will be like a cross that gets rid of vampires.

00:02:56.260 Back off. 0.65

00:03:01.360 Back off.

00:03:02.580 20 feet.

00:03:03.380 20 feet.

00:03:04.360 20 feet.

00:03:04.940 20 feet.

00:03:05.820 So I think this will keep me lonely for a while.

00:03:13.660 But let me give you the update on the symptoms.

00:03:17.660 So first day, Saturday, horrible.

00:03:20.020 Second day, I would say the symptoms were gone 70% by the second day.

00:03:25.700 But 30% of that was still pretty rough, right? 0.91

00:03:30.700 It was still 30% of something that sucked.

00:03:34.160 So day two wasn't too fun.

00:03:36.860 Day three, it looked like it was another 70% or so.

00:03:41.280 And here was my experience.

00:03:42.940 I had a sudden, almost unnatural recovery that happened within a few hours.

00:03:53.680 Now, isn't that weird?

00:03:56.680 So what drug did I take, or what medicine or medicines did I take, that caused me to go from really, you know, head foggy, tired, couldn't move, basically.

00:04:10.420 And then suddenly, boom, I didn't have any symptoms at all that I could identify.

00:04:19.760 What was it?

00:04:21.840 Here's the answer.

00:04:24.320 Apparently, it just does that.

00:04:27.880 Here's everything you need to know about everything you've ever heard about what works and what doesn't work with COVID.

00:04:35.980 I don't think it matters what you do.

00:04:37.760 I didn't do anything that should have made a difference.

00:04:41.180 I took Tylenol, right?

00:04:44.200 Smoked weed, drank coffee, which I do every day.

00:04:48.500 So remember I told you that when I first contracted it, it was obvious it was COVID.

00:04:56.180 I mean, if anybody had been paying attention, it was obvious.

00:05:00.200 And part of why it was obvious is that I'd never felt anything like it.

00:05:03.400 It just didn't feel like a normal illness at all, because it affected my brain.

00:05:09.900 I've never had that before.

00:05:11.520 Have you?

00:05:12.520 Any kind of illness that directly affected your cognition?

00:05:16.520 And it was pretty bad.

00:05:18.180 There were simple things that I couldn't figure out.

00:05:20.740 You should have seen me try to send a text message.

00:05:23.900 There was a period when it was sort of peaking in intensity.

00:05:28.840 When I would type a text message and I would look at it, it would literally just be random letters.

00:05:36.000 They weren't even close to words.

00:05:38.080 They weren't even close.

00:05:39.000 And I'd look at it and say, oh, I guess I had been like one over or something.

00:05:44.660 Sometimes your keyboard hand is like one letter over.

00:05:47.940 So I'd type it again, paying more attention.

00:05:50.600 And I'd look at it again and be like, still not even close to words.

00:05:55.460 You wouldn't even know what word I was intending.

00:05:58.280 I was trying to do searches on Google.

00:06:01.880 But fortunately, Google knows how to translate your misspellings to real words.

00:06:06.440 I think every word I tried to spell was misspelled.

00:06:10.840 Like a lot.

00:06:13.300 The cognitive part was pretty intense.

00:06:17.540 But here's my bottom line.

00:06:19.500 Everybody who took anything on the third day

00:06:23.900 believes that they had a miraculous recovery because of what they did on the third day.

00:06:30.840 Because I didn't do anything.

00:06:32.240 And I had a miraculous recovery that didn't look natural.

00:06:36.440 The fact that all of my symptoms went away within just a few hours,

00:06:40.740 instead of sort of gradually wearing off, nothing like that happened.

00:06:46.000 The body ache and the symptoms came on within one hour when I got it.

00:06:54.360 And when they left, it felt like they left in an hour.

00:06:58.480 Now, nothing about that feels natural.

00:07:02.060 Nothing.

00:07:03.140 I'm not saying that means it was an engineered virus.

00:07:06.480 But I've never felt anything that came on that fast or left that quickly after two and a half days.

00:07:13.640 So now, imagine if I had successfully gotten the Paxlovid drug

00:07:18.780 that I had initially thought about but was too mentally incompetent to make it happen.

00:07:23.860 Later, I changed my mind and decided I'd be better off writing it out.

00:07:29.240 But imagine if I'd gotten it.

00:07:31.840 I would have gotten it and taken it just hours before all of my symptoms went away on their own.

00:07:39.900 Miraculously.

00:07:40.920 What would I have concluded?

00:07:43.160 Would I have recommended to you that you take Paxlovid?

00:07:46.060 What? I would. I would.

00:07:48.580 Because if I felt that bad for two and a half days,

00:07:51.900 and within hours of taking a particular drug, I felt completely better,

00:07:56.960 you don't think I would recommend you take that drug?

00:08:00.280 And I would be completely wrong.

00:08:03.600 I mean, maybe it is a good drug.

00:08:05.000 I don't know. I'm not a doctor.

00:08:06.520 Don't take my advice.

00:08:08.420 Whatever you do.

00:08:09.080 By the way, yeah, let me stop here.

00:08:11.100 Make sure you're not taking any medical advice from this.

00:08:14.140 There's nothing like that happening here.

00:08:16.060 What I'm trying to tell you is that anything you heard about ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine,

00:08:21.340 Paxlovid, remdesivir, you name it.

00:08:25.160 Anything you heard where somebody's symptoms, you know, very quickly turned around,

00:08:31.480 how can you distinguish that from what happened with me?

00:08:36.360 Now, how many of you had a similar situation where you didn't take anything that should have helped

00:08:42.000 and you had a very quick turnaround?

00:08:46.740 Yeah, you see in the comments, in the locals, it's a little faster.

00:08:50.640 Right, you're seeing yeses, right?

00:08:52.420 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, right.

00:08:54.840 So everything that you heard about something that definitely worked, no way to know.

00:09:01.300 No way to know.

00:09:01.900 All right.

00:09:05.640 And then, of course, today there's an article, of course, about Paxlovid.

00:09:10.340 So that's the pill you take, one of the pills you take if you have symptoms.

00:09:15.360 And it says that you can get a rebound thing and still be contagious after you take it and blah, blah, blah.

00:09:22.000 All right.

00:09:22.420 So there's that.

00:09:25.660 I'm glad I didn't take it.

00:09:26.560 I watched the Norm MacDonald special, the one he recorded just in his house before he passed.

00:09:35.900 And it was disturbing.

00:09:38.440 It was disturbing because you knew he was so close to his death and that he knew it when he was doing it.

00:09:44.880 And he had a number of jokes about death.

00:09:48.940 And I have to admit it was a little jarring.

00:09:51.260 Now, here's a story I've told some of you, you've heard before, and I can tell it because he's passed.

00:09:59.980 But a few years ago, Norm contacted me.

00:10:04.920 And apparently he had followed me to some degree.

00:10:09.160 I don't know.

00:10:09.500 I think he may have read one of my books or something.

00:10:12.000 And I think he might have seen my live streams.

00:10:14.440 So he contacted me on Twitter, I think, and asked if I would take a call.

00:10:20.120 So I did.

00:10:21.260 So I talked to him, and I didn't know that he was dealing with a, you know, terminal cancer.

00:10:28.640 But he asked me about dealing with pain.

00:10:32.760 So apparently he had some kind of ongoing pain that drugs weren't doing the job for, for whatever reason.

00:10:39.260 And he asked me if hypnosis would be a potential solution to that.

00:10:44.100 So I told him what I knew about it, which is some people do get some relief from hypnosis.

00:10:49.200 It kind of depends, right?

00:10:50.940 I'm not going to say it's going to work on every kind of pain and every situation.

00:10:54.600 I don't know that to be true.

00:10:55.940 But you hear enough reports about people, anecdotally, who feel like they handled their pain.

00:11:02.640 So I thought it was worth trying.

00:11:03.900 And so because I had that little bit of encounter with him, and then after the fact I realized how meaningful it was, I mean, I thought it was plenty terrible that he had to deal with this chronic pain.

00:11:17.500 I didn't know how bad it was or that it was part of a terminal situation.

00:11:22.480 So I found it hard to watch, but I recommend it highly because you do see, you know, one of the greatest of all time putting out some material you haven't seen before.

00:11:38.440 And that alone is worth watching.

00:11:41.060 I also watched Ricky Gervais, his new stand-up special that the trans community is getting up in arms for.

00:11:49.260 And it's kind of interesting because he says so directly that these are just jokes and that he says things just for effect.

00:11:57.500 He says that in the act.

00:11:59.540 You know, he pauses and says, you know, I just say this for effect, right?

00:12:02.220 It's just to offend you and make people laugh.

00:12:04.800 I don't mean any of that.

00:12:07.300 And to me, that should be good enough.

00:12:11.280 But the fact is that some things do offend people, just the topic itself.

00:12:16.540 You know, it just feels like you're making it too easy to mock them or something.

00:12:20.840 So I felt that this is one time that Ricky Gervais was trying a little too hard to be Dave Chappelle.

00:12:31.320 I hate to say that, but that's what it felt like.

00:12:36.360 Because remember how impressive it was when Chappelle handled, you know, basically a similar situation.

00:12:45.100 And he did it, you know, wokeness, let's say.

00:12:47.860 Wokeness in particular, not the trans issue.

00:12:50.680 But when Chappelle did his special, it was just sort of a genius.

00:12:54.280 You know, and it showed that somebody could talk about complicated emotional topics and still make it all work.

00:13:02.980 And I felt like Gervais wanted to enter that same space.

00:13:06.560 And I guess he did it successfully.

00:13:09.340 I'd say he did it successfully.

00:13:11.620 You know, he did occupy the space.

00:13:13.920 And he did, got away with it.

00:13:16.140 You know, by his standards.

00:13:17.460 But I felt like it was a little forced, that's all.

00:13:21.920 I felt like he was trying to get into that space more than he was trying to just make us laugh.

00:13:29.280 So it felt like there was a burden on the writing.

00:13:32.120 That's what I felt.

00:13:33.740 It's sort of just a weird writer's take on it.

00:13:37.100 But do I recommend it?

00:13:38.860 Yes.

00:13:39.940 Yes, I recommend it.

00:13:40.980 So in terms of things you could watch that would entertain you, yeah, yeah, you should watch it.

00:13:47.240 Definitely watch it.

00:13:51.400 Here's a hoax update.

00:13:53.880 So Jeffrey Goldberg, who may or may not have ever promoted any hoaxes in his past, tweeted this.

00:14:02.020 He said, a reminder that on Memorial Day 2017, Donald Trump and John Kelly, his chief of staff, visited the Arlington National Cemetery grave of Kelly's son, a fallen Marine officer.

00:14:14.680 Trump turned to Kelly and said, quote, I don't get it.

00:14:18.000 What's in it for them?

00:14:21.000 So that's what Jeffrey Goldberg says happened in 2017.

00:14:24.520 Mark Hemingway countered with a tweet of his own saying, a reminder, more than 20 people with knowledge of what occurred with Trump on this trip went on record to say Goldberg's anonymously sourced story is bunk.

00:14:42.800 Okay.

00:14:44.220 Now, did you believe even for a second that this was true?

00:14:50.200 I mean, just listen to this again.

00:14:51.560 Do you believe that Trump would have stood next to a grave with Kelly and, you know, where his fallen Marine son was and turned to Kelly and said, I don't get it.

00:15:01.520 What's in it for them?

00:15:03.120 Does that even sound a little bit like something he would do?

00:15:06.880 Like, even if you assume the worst things about Trump are true, he's always been respectful to the military.

00:15:13.320 Has anybody been more consistent in being respectful to the military in all the ways that he can figure out how to do it, right?

00:15:24.980 I mean, even if he missed a salute here or there, I don't know, maybe he did.

00:15:29.620 But clearly his intentions have been so consistent for years and years. 0.92

00:15:35.840 I mean, so it's just a ridiculous hoax.

00:15:38.280 And I can't believe anybody tried to promote that one. 0.71

00:15:40.560 But somebody will believe anything.

00:15:43.740 All right.

00:15:43.940 When I put out my hoax quiz, they had 10 popular hoaxes on it.

00:15:49.480 And I invited you to borrow it so you could share it with people who tried to argue with you online.

00:15:55.280 But if they believe any of those 10 hoaxes, you can say to yourself, I'm not dealing with a clever person here.

00:16:02.200 And that might be useful.

00:16:03.260 But I was one-upped by a user who said, 10, here's my list of, I don't know, 25 or 30 hoaxes.

00:16:13.120 What would be better?

00:16:14.620 What is more persuasive?

00:16:16.540 10 hoaxes or let's say 30?

00:16:19.460 If I were trying to convince you, let's say a Democrat, that the Democrat side was doing a lot of hoaxing and that it makes a big difference in how they see the world, would I be more convincing with 30 or with 10?

00:16:36.860 The answer is probably 10.

00:16:42.120 Now, I say probably because I think you'd have to do like a proper scientific study to know which really makes a difference.

00:16:48.840 Could be that the bigger number influences people.

00:16:51.980 But I don't think so.

00:16:53.800 And here's why.

00:16:55.280 If you only do 10, you can make sure that you pick the 10 that are the strongest cases.

00:17:00.560 If you pick 30, you will necessarily have things that are weaker than whatever your best 10 was, right?

00:17:09.820 So your goal would be to have the most number without getting into any weak ones.

00:17:15.720 Because when I looked at the list of 30, even I said, that's not a hoax.

00:17:21.440 That's marginal.

00:17:22.300 So I'm completely on the side of the hoaxes being hoaxes, but even I didn't believe the list of 30.

00:17:31.460 You get that?

00:17:32.760 Like I'm completely primed to believe that the Democrats are hoaxing everything.

00:17:37.840 You know, I've seen so many of them.

00:17:39.180 But even I couldn't believe the list of 30.

00:17:42.340 The list of 10 is hard enough to believe as it is.

00:17:45.460 And that's actually part of its strength.

00:17:46.980 Because you want people to see that there are like eight things on there that even they know are hoaxes.

00:17:52.580 And then there are two on there that they think were real. 0.99

00:17:54.820 And they're like, uh, oh shit. 0.99

00:17:58.400 If the other eight are fake, maybe these other two are fake too. 0.99

00:18:03.240 So the laundry list persuasion is one you need to guard against when somebody is using it against you.

00:18:09.780 Because if somebody has a list, you just sort of think something on that list must be true.

00:18:14.480 But if you want to be the one who's the persuasive one, then using the laundry list persuasion actually, unfortunately, it works.

00:18:24.460 I'm not sure it's the most ethical thing you could ever do, but it works.

00:18:29.740 Now in this case, it's ethical, in my opinion, because everything on the list is true, as far as I know.

00:18:36.820 And the purpose of promoting it is to make the world smarter and better.

00:18:42.640 So that feels ethical enough to me.

00:18:51.400 Yes, and has somebody said here, if there's one cat that doesn't belong in your house, you might be able to get rid of it.

00:18:58.380 But if there are ten cats, you're going to have to deal with the root cause.

00:19:01.740 You know, there's maybe a root problem here or something.

00:19:03.780 Elon Musk is sort of doubling down on his voting Republican.

00:19:13.540 But he said that he has a reason for why the Democrats may have turned so negative lately.

00:19:23.820 And apparently some of that negativity is hitting him.

00:19:26.180 He says that there was somebody who donated lots of money to political action committees posing as charities,

00:19:40.000 and that all that money is causing a lot of negativity to come into the system.

00:19:45.360 And that the person who donated all that money was Jeff Bezos' ex-wife.

00:19:48.920 Mackenzie Scott is her last name, I guess.

00:19:53.240 And so Musk is, like, directly saying that her money has changed things into a bad thing,

00:20:02.160 and so much so that he's escaping the Democrats.

00:20:05.700 And Musk says that it's true that Tesla was attacked by Romney in two or three presidential debates.

00:20:16.580 But he says those lines were fed to him by a particular individual in the oil and gas industry.

00:20:22.060 So Musk knows a lot about what's behind the curtain.

00:20:24.940 Like, he even knows the person who gave Romney the talking points.

00:20:29.140 So that's pretty far behind the curtain.

00:20:31.060 And he says, given the unprovoked attacks by leading Democrats against me, meaning Musk,

00:20:42.160 and a very cold shoulder to Tesla and SpaceX, I intend to vote Republican in November.

00:20:46.940 I love the fact that he's using his own vote as a public political weapon.

00:20:53.240 Who else could do that?

00:20:56.340 Imagine if I went public and said, I'm going to change my vote.

00:21:00.380 And the entire world would say, so?

00:21:04.880 What's that got to do with me?

00:21:07.180 Go vote any way you want, citizen.

00:21:10.260 But when the richest person in the world says he's going to change his vote and then shows his work,

00:21:15.940 tells you why, you kind of pay attention.

00:21:18.880 I feel like he could move the needle.

00:21:20.940 I mean, I don't know how much, but, like, I know I couldn't or anybody else.

00:21:25.160 But I think he could actually move the needle by saying, if you don't act better, I'll vote for the other team.

00:21:32.400 Now, what is it that Democrat voters get wrong all the time?

00:21:38.580 What Democrat voters get wrong all the time is they'll vote for their team no matter what the team does.

00:21:43.780 I suppose you could argue that Republicans do that, too.

00:21:48.700 But if people are just team voters, we're doomed.

00:21:52.520 So the richest, maybe one of the smartest people in the world, just show Democrats how they can retake power.

00:21:59.400 Stop voting for the people that are screwing you.

00:22:05.120 Do you know how big a lesson that is? 0.98

00:22:08.000 Stop voting for the people who are just screwing you? 0.95

00:22:11.100 Like, they're screwing you right in front of you. 0.99

00:22:12.940 They're not even pretending they're not screwing you. 0.99

00:22:15.760 I mean, they're screwing Musk, like, right in front of his face. 0.98

00:22:19.600 So why would he vote for them?

00:22:21.780 Now, I love the fact that he's not saying, I love Republicans and I endorse all their policies. 1.00

00:22:27.220 He's literally just punishing Democrats for being assholes. 0.99

00:22:32.260 Am I right? 1.00

00:22:33.880 Which is actually a really useful impulse.

00:22:37.320 Because simply saying stuff doesn't really change things.

00:22:40.080 But he actually changed his vote.

00:22:41.760 And he's willing to change his vote to vote for a team that has policies that I think, just guessing, he hates.

00:22:49.580 I'm just guessing.

00:22:51.100 Because, you know, I don't think he's a conservative.

00:22:53.600 So don't you think there are some conservative policies, some Republican policies that he probably hates.

00:22:59.560 But he's still going to vote for them to punish the Democrats.

00:23:04.420 That is really useful.

00:23:06.860 If he taught the whole country to do that, just punish your team if they're obviously just abusing you.

00:23:14.220 I don't know.

00:23:14.680 I think we'd come out ahead, wouldn't we?

00:23:15.980 We'll see.

00:23:19.120 So every time he makes a move, it has like a societal impact that's hard to judge.

00:23:26.480 Good news in indoor farming.

00:23:29.340 Maybe outdoors, too.

00:23:30.600 There's now a really good farm bot.

00:23:33.280 A robot that can plant your seeds and water it.

00:23:37.740 And it can pick the weeds and it can fertilize it exactly the right amount.

00:23:43.560 Basically, every kind of plant will get its own special treatment.

00:23:48.520 And I thought to myself, I believe that there's a 10x improvement in indoor farming that we're going to see in the next few years.

00:23:56.340 And all you need to do is be able to build a cheaper structure, the indoor part.

00:24:05.840 So if we can figure out how to make a durable, easy structure, that would be half of it.

00:24:12.920 Then the robots will get rid of the labor, because they can work all day long and they can do it perfectly.

00:24:19.020 They'll get rid of the fertilizers.

00:24:24.020 Or, no, I'm not sure.

00:24:25.280 They don't get rid of the fertilizers.

00:24:26.880 They get rid of the pesticides.

00:24:29.580 Right?

00:24:30.160 Because there's no bugs.

00:24:31.480 I think the robot could probably even squash a bug.

00:24:34.760 They didn't teach it to do that.

00:24:36.200 Yeah, it's hydroponics, probably.

00:24:38.820 So I think the yields, and they'll also, I think, learn to grow better vertically.

00:24:44.340 Because they don't have the vertical thing down as well as they could.

00:24:47.620 So I think there's going to be better mirrors, better lighting, cheaper electricity, fusion, who knows.

00:24:55.980 But whatever they do, I think there's going to be a 10x improvement in indoor farming.

00:24:59.820 And that will make us a lot safer the next time there's a food shortage.

00:25:04.840 Speaking of food shortage, we have two gigantic problems in the world.

00:25:13.100 One is that wheat looks like it's going to be greatly constrained.

00:25:18.900 So the supply of wheat will be so constrained that poor countries will, are predicted to have starvation.

00:25:28.460 It's a big problem.

00:25:30.320 Second big problem.

00:25:32.100 Obesity in rich countries.

00:25:34.500 Caused by.

00:25:36.400 Caused by.

00:25:37.960 Too much bread.

00:25:38.860 Well, you know, other things too, but too much bread.

00:25:44.280 So if we have rich countries who have too much bread, it's making them unhealthy.

00:25:50.340 And you have poor countries who are going to starve because they don't have enough wheat.

00:25:56.000 Is there no way we can solve two problems at the same time?

00:26:00.400 Okay, I get it.

00:26:01.260 There's a distribution challenge.

00:26:03.300 Sure, I get it.

00:26:04.220 But it's such a big problem, I feel like, you know, you could make those adjustments.

00:26:11.440 I'm taking this personal.

00:26:13.760 I don't mean to take your bread away from you.

00:26:16.720 Now, somebody said, you can't take bread away from, you know, the rich.

00:26:20.460 They will fight to keep it.

00:26:21.660 To which I say, well, if it's not on the shelves, what are they going to be fighting to keep?

00:26:27.820 So I feel as if the biggest category in my supermarket is bread.

00:26:35.200 Bread-related things.

00:26:36.640 I don't think we have a bread shortage.

00:26:38.260 I think we have, like, way too much bread.

00:26:41.580 So maybe the reason that it looks like an emergency, but we're not treating it like one, is that it isn't one.

00:26:50.700 Maybe people just adjust what they eat and everything's fine.

00:26:53.660 I don't know.

00:26:54.280 Maybe.

00:26:55.140 Maybe you just eat more vegetables.

00:26:57.820 But the CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, says that the open office plan for, you know, cubicles or non-cubicles, I should say, is dead.

00:27:11.880 And that the old way of the open floor plan with these meeting rooms that everyone's waiting in line to get in and no one can find a meeting room, all of that is, I think, a thing of the past.

00:27:22.500 So people will be trying to redesign the office of the future, and it might include coming in for a week every quarter to, you know, bond.

00:27:33.920 I don't know.

00:27:35.900 Does it feel like the cubicle is dead?

00:27:37.760 I mean, I tried to kill cubicles for 33 years, but it looks like it took COVID to do it.

00:27:46.500 Now, cubicles will probably always, because they're cheap.

00:27:50.320 As long as they're cheap, they're just still going to be used.

00:27:53.400 There will be some cool high-tech companies that try other things and then give up on them later.

00:27:58.100 It seems to me that Biden, his strategy for Ukraine is now clear.

00:28:05.920 For a while, it was a little murky, but now it's clear.

00:28:09.040 And I would call it the Afghanistan strategy.

00:28:12.080 It's basically the same as the Afghanistan strategy, which you could call losing expensively.

00:28:18.220 Losing expensively.

00:28:20.260 So it's two parts.

00:28:22.040 There's the losing.

00:28:22.920 But there's also spending way too much money to do it.

00:28:28.100 Now, winning would look like winning economically.

00:28:32.780 That's what a good outcome would be.

00:28:35.120 But if you're losing and you're spending way too much money to do it, that's sort of the Afghanistan strategy.

00:28:41.300 So at least we know what he's up to.

00:28:45.500 And I think we can say at this point that...

00:28:52.020 Here's another example of wanting versus deciding.

00:28:55.060 You know how we were trying to decide what is it that Putin really wants with Ukraine?

00:29:00.780 Does he want the whole country or does he want the region he's consolidating now?

00:29:06.320 And it always seemed like both, didn't it?

00:29:08.640 It was like, well, he sort of acted like he wanted the whole country, but maybe that was a fake-out.

00:29:14.360 Maybe he never did.

00:29:15.520 Maybe he just wanted the other stuff.

00:29:16.960 But I think here's a better way to look at it.

00:29:20.000 It's the difference between what you want and what you decide.

00:29:24.960 I believe Putin decided to take over those territories he's taking over right now.

00:29:31.140 Meaning that once he had decided, there was no price he was unwilling to pay.

00:29:35.860 It looks like it.

00:29:37.060 It looks like he would be willing to pay any price to take over those territories.

00:29:42.260 So that looks like a decision.

00:29:43.740 And as I told you before, if he ever decides he wants any part of Ukraine, he's going to have it. 0.99

00:29:50.960 Because he will be able to take however much pain it takes, and then he'll just have it.

00:29:55.220 It looks like that's what he's doing.

00:29:57.760 Any amount of cruelty, any amount of loss of life for Russians, any amount of military degradation,

00:30:04.020 any amount of sanctions, apparently he's just going to do it.

00:30:08.220 But, did he think the same way about all of Ukraine and Kyiv?

00:30:14.060 I don't think so.

00:30:15.740 I think all of Ukraine is something he wanted, but he had not decided on it.

00:30:21.820 And that when it looked like it was hard to get, he said, well, okay.

00:30:26.360 You know, it kept their army pinned down, and so it did his job.

00:30:30.820 We'll just take the part we care about.

00:30:32.180 So I think the wanting versus deciding frame helps analyze that one. 1.00

00:30:42.480 Here's the most optimistic, stupid thing you've ever heard in your life. 0.99

00:30:47.220 You've got a big problem with national debt, am I right? 1.00

00:30:51.200 National debt's through the roof.

00:30:53.460 You'd like to solve that, don't you, wouldn't you?

00:30:55.420 You've got another big problem, inflation.

00:30:59.080 Inflation, gigantic problem.

00:31:00.320 You'd like to solve that, wouldn't you?

00:31:03.080 Do you know what solves national debt?

00:31:09.340 Inflation.

00:31:10.560 You could inflate it away.

00:31:15.000 Now, don't get me started on why that's a bad idea.

00:31:22.100 Yeah, that's the low IQ take.

00:31:24.800 Now, it's both literally true 0.58

00:31:27.120 that probably the only way to get rid of a debt this big

00:31:30.280 is to inflate it away,

00:31:31.340 but you want to do it with, you know, a reasonable level of inflation.

00:31:36.200 You don't want to do it with runaway inflation.

00:31:38.960 That doesn't give you the win you want it.

00:31:41.640 Everybody okay with that?

00:31:43.560 That you want some inflation

00:31:45.400 because we'll probably never be able to pay it down.

00:31:48.660 You want the value of that,

00:31:50.280 those dollars that we borrowed,

00:31:51.720 just to reduce over time

00:31:53.720 because everything inflates,

00:31:55.100 even if it's just 2% to 4% a year.

00:31:58.920 But, you know, if you're up to 8% a year in inflation

00:32:01.440 or something like that,

00:32:02.380 that's a little too fast.

00:32:03.920 A little too fast.

00:32:06.200 All right.

00:32:06.520 Oh, my God. 0.79

00:32:10.380 This is the left-wing Robert Rubin nonsense.

00:32:13.580 I just said, don't take it seriously.

00:32:16.480 Is somebody taking it seriously?

00:32:21.680 No, you...

00:32:22.800 I'm pretty sure that you want a small amount of inflation

00:32:25.560 if you ever want to get rid of your debt.

00:32:30.740 But a big amount would be a bad idea.

00:32:32.880 All right.

00:32:34.540 Canadians, it looks like they're proposing this legislation

00:32:37.760 to cap their guns,

00:32:40.420 meaning that you wouldn't be able to buy another handgun

00:32:43.800 or any gun, I guess, if you're a citizen.

00:32:47.960 They can keep the ones they have,

00:32:50.440 but you wouldn't be able to get anything else.

00:32:54.900 You wouldn't be able to import it.

00:32:56.560 You wouldn't be able to get it anywhere else.

00:32:58.700 Now, people are going to say,

00:33:00.240 well, if Canada can do that,

00:33:02.640 why can't the United States? 0.93

00:33:04.760 Does anybody want to answer that question?

00:33:06.780 If Canada can do this,

00:33:08.820 why can't the United States go?

00:33:15.060 Well, let me jump in with my answer

00:33:17.340 while you're giving your answers.

00:33:20.760 Because they live next to the United States.

00:33:23.140 If Canada were ever, let's say,

00:33:27.220 attacked by a tyrant who wanted to occupy the country,

00:33:32.340 it would take 10 minutes for the United States

00:33:35.000 to flow 200 million guns into Canada.

00:33:38.480 They'll never be short of guns.

00:33:41.040 Canada will always have 0.84

00:33:42.480 all the American guns they want to use.

00:33:45.680 Because we're not going to let Canada go under.

00:33:48.820 Have you met us?

00:33:50.360 Canadians, let me talk to you directly.

00:33:51.880 Canadians, 1.00

00:33:53.900 you might think that Americans are kind of assholes, 1.00

00:33:58.940 kind of assholes sometimes. 1.00

00:34:00.140 You're not wrong. 1.00

00:34:01.080 You're not wrong. 1.00

00:34:02.560 Well, we're kind of bastards. 1.00

00:34:04.660 We're kind of bastards sometimes. 1.00

00:34:06.840 We're a little selfish. 1.00

00:34:08.080 We're cruel.

00:34:09.660 We're bigoted. 0.98

00:34:11.020 We're racist. 0.95

00:34:12.680 We're sexist.

00:34:14.160 We're a lot of things.

00:34:15.220 Yes, it's all true.

00:34:18.240 But Canadians, 1.00

00:34:20.680 if your ass gets in trouble, 1.00

00:34:23.980 call us. 1.00

00:34:25.600 Seriously.

00:34:27.340 Call us. 0.99

00:34:28.680 We're going to fucking save you. 0.99

00:34:30.420 Every time. 1.00

00:34:31.680 Every time.

00:34:32.780 Right?

00:34:32.940 So, you don't need guns that much.

00:34:36.720 I mean, at least for that one specific,

00:34:38.740 you know, use.

00:34:39.560 You don't need guns.

00:34:40.760 Now, you might be feeling unarmed

00:34:43.000 against criminals

00:34:44.320 and stuff like that.

00:34:47.540 That's not arrogant.

00:34:49.440 Is it arrogant to say that America

00:34:51.020 would come to the rescue of Canada

00:34:53.160 if that were ever important?

00:34:55.140 No.

00:34:56.040 Because Canada would do the same thing.

00:34:58.680 Can the Canadians imagine

00:35:00.280 any scenario

00:35:01.040 in which the United States

00:35:02.180 was seriously at risk

00:35:03.780 from an outside force

00:35:06.280 and Canada would not mount

00:35:08.600 its maximum military effort

00:35:10.940 to jump into the fight?

00:35:12.140 Of course not.

00:35:13.100 It's just automatic.

00:35:14.820 Right?

00:35:15.340 Canada and the United States

00:35:16.480 are just linked

00:35:17.120 and that's not going to change.

00:35:18.800 We're just linked militarily.

00:35:20.900 So,

00:35:22.040 it's not arrogant to say

00:35:23.300 that if Canada ever got in trouble,

00:35:24.760 the United States

00:35:25.540 would be there in a heartbeat.

00:35:28.040 That's just common sense

00:35:29.320 because it would work both ways.

00:35:32.340 Right?

00:35:33.240 So,

00:35:34.180 anyway.

00:35:40.900 Rasmussen has a poll

00:35:41.900 that says 76% of people,

00:35:44.560 this is the people

00:35:45.580 who very much support it

00:35:47.140 and kind of support it,

00:35:48.520 support some kind of

00:35:49.520 red flag rules for guns,

00:35:51.960 meaning that

00:35:52.780 a citizen could petition

00:35:55.220 the court,

00:35:56.060 I guess,

00:35:56.560 to have someone else's gun

00:35:58.360 taken away

00:35:59.080 if there's evidence

00:36:00.580 that that person

00:36:01.400 is a high-level danger

00:36:04.080 with a gun.

00:36:06.700 76% of the public

00:36:08.140 supports that.

00:36:10.560 Do you?

00:36:12.380 Now,

00:36:13.060 let's take for granted

00:36:15.100 that any law

00:36:16.860 can be abused.

00:36:17.620 So,

00:36:19.480 if you say

00:36:19.960 the reason

00:36:20.360 you don't agree

00:36:21.220 with it

00:36:21.540 is because

00:36:21.940 the law

00:36:22.360 can be abused,

00:36:23.640 that would be a reason

00:36:24.860 to not agree

00:36:25.500 with any law.

00:36:28.760 Because

00:36:29.240 every law

00:36:30.400 can be abused.

00:36:32.040 We have laws

00:36:32.920 against rape.

00:36:34.180 Has anybody

00:36:34.760 ever been

00:36:35.280 falsely accused

00:36:36.440 of rape?

00:36:37.560 Yeah.

00:36:38.500 I mean,

00:36:38.760 almost everything

00:36:39.340 can be abused.

00:36:40.920 So,

00:36:42.300 do you say

00:36:43.980 that you shouldn't

00:36:44.580 have a law

00:36:45.200 because it might

00:36:46.780 be abused?

00:36:48.020 That's not

00:36:48.580 a good enough reason.

00:36:50.320 I mean,

00:36:50.640 you'd have to be able

00:36:51.480 to measure

00:36:52.160 the size of the abuse.

00:36:54.100 Well,

00:36:54.280 how about this?

00:36:57.760 If you think

00:36:58.540 it's a good idea,

00:37:00.360 you're wrong. 0.83

00:37:02.200 And if you think

00:37:03.100 it's a bad idea,

00:37:04.380 you're wrong. 0.83

00:37:05.520 Why?

00:37:07.700 Can anybody

00:37:08.360 answer the question?

00:37:09.260 So,

00:37:09.480 there's my opinion.

00:37:10.420 If you think

00:37:11.040 that the red flag rules

00:37:12.160 are a good idea,

00:37:13.140 you're wrong. 0.83

00:37:13.920 If you think

00:37:14.580 they're a bad idea,

00:37:15.620 you're wrong. 0.83

00:37:16.780 Why do I say that?

00:37:21.560 Because you can

00:37:22.460 test it.

00:37:23.140 Thank you,

00:37:23.780 Anthony.

00:37:25.140 Anthony,

00:37:25.820 if you can test it,

00:37:27.320 you're having

00:37:27.640 the wrong debate.

00:37:29.260 The debate is,

00:37:30.200 where do we test it?

00:37:31.920 That's it.

00:37:33.600 Unless you want

00:37:34.320 to go full

00:37:34.980 constitutional

00:37:35.620 and say,

00:37:36.800 you know,

00:37:37.640 it's a red line,

00:37:39.840 don't test it.

00:37:40.780 But if you want

00:37:41.620 to know if it works,

00:37:44.040 find some place

00:37:44.980 that wants to test it.

00:37:45.960 find out.

00:37:47.880 Right?

00:37:48.240 You don't have

00:37:48.880 to debate it.

00:37:49.740 Just test it.

00:37:52.040 All right.

00:37:54.900 And so,

00:37:55.660 therefore,

00:37:55.940 I don't have

00:37:56.340 an opinion.

00:37:57.340 I don't have

00:37:58.060 any opinion on it

00:37:58.880 because it can be

00:37:59.500 tested.

00:38:03.400 An Israeli 0.79

00:38:04.160 cybersecurity company

00:38:05.300 says that Twitter

00:38:06.840 has 12%

00:38:07.880 bot-related traffic

00:38:10.360 at least.

00:38:11.000 Now,

00:38:12.340 the way that

00:38:12.740 they calculated it,

00:38:13.560 I think,

00:38:13.920 is a little bit

00:38:14.980 up to debate

00:38:17.080 because they don't

00:38:19.040 have internal

00:38:19.660 Twitter numbers.

00:38:20.840 They're just

00:38:21.060 looking at

00:38:22.520 external sites

00:38:23.500 that originated

00:38:24.240 from Twitter.

00:38:25.500 You know,

00:38:25.880 they think they've

00:38:26.620 got it figured out.

00:38:28.340 But I feel like

00:38:30.400 the asking price

00:38:33.500 for Twitter

00:38:34.000 is going to go down,

00:38:36.120 meaning that,

00:38:37.840 correct me if I'm wrong,

00:38:38.800 because I haven't

00:38:39.240 done a merger

00:38:40.300 of this size.

00:38:41.700 But when you make

00:38:42.680 a deal for a certain

00:38:43.640 dollar amount,

00:38:45.580 and then there's

00:38:46.240 a disclosure period,

00:38:47.320 right,

00:38:48.340 where you find out

00:38:49.560 if you're really

00:38:50.200 buying the thing

00:38:50.860 you thought you bought.

00:38:52.380 If you dig in

00:38:53.360 and find out

00:38:53.920 the number of bots

00:38:54.780 is way different

00:38:55.540 than what you thought

00:38:56.900 when you made

00:38:57.360 your offer,

00:38:58.620 then you would have

00:38:59.640 cause to renegotiate.

00:39:01.840 You'd say,

00:39:02.320 okay,

00:39:02.500 we've already said yes,

00:39:04.200 but now we've found

00:39:05.160 that this asset

00:39:06.040 is not as valuable

00:39:07.000 as we thought,

00:39:07.760 so let's decrease

00:39:08.520 it by 12%,

00:39:09.620 and I'll decrease

00:39:10.480 my offer by 12%,

00:39:11.740 or whatever

00:39:12.200 the numbers are.

00:39:18.980 The offer price

00:39:20.180 will go down,

00:39:21.120 not the asking.

00:39:23.560 Right,

00:39:24.160 the offer price

00:39:24.880 will go down.

00:39:26.980 Did I say

00:39:27.740 something else?

00:39:28.820 Yes,

00:39:29.160 the offer price

00:39:29.800 will go down.

00:39:33.120 Maybe.

00:39:33.840 So we'll see

00:39:34.260 if that happens.

00:39:34.800 So somehow

00:39:36.460 the EU,

00:39:38.040 the European Union

00:39:39.660 bloc

00:39:40.540 of them

00:39:41.640 have decided

00:39:42.280 to,

00:39:44.240 on Monday,

00:39:45.220 I guess,

00:39:45.540 just yesterday,

00:39:46.060 decided to cut

00:39:46.740 around 90%

00:39:47.560 of all Russian

00:39:48.260 oil imports

00:39:49.060 over the next

00:39:49.720 six months.

00:39:51.260 And they currently

00:39:52.480 import 25%

00:39:53.860 of their oil

00:39:54.320 from Russia.

00:39:56.540 Now,

00:39:56.840 is 25%

00:39:57.900 so much oil

00:39:59.100 that they can't

00:40:00.000 get that

00:40:00.340 from other sources?

00:40:01.140 I feel like

00:40:02.920 25%

00:40:03.740 is about

00:40:04.360 the amount

00:40:04.880 you can

00:40:06.400 get over. 0.54

00:40:08.940 In other words,

00:40:09.480 it's not

00:40:10.400 so much oil

00:40:11.480 that you can't

00:40:12.680 find other sources

00:40:13.740 in six months.

00:40:16.420 Now,

00:40:16.860 I imagine

00:40:17.300 that they would

00:40:17.780 not have made

00:40:18.340 this agreement

00:40:20.400 if they didn't

00:40:22.380 know they could

00:40:22.980 work it out,

00:40:24.100 or at least

00:40:24.820 they didn't

00:40:25.100 have a plan.

00:40:26.520 Gas is the

00:40:27.240 big issue,

00:40:27.740 as somebody's

00:40:28.060 saying.

00:40:28.360 Oil is not

00:40:29.080 the big issue,

00:40:29.560 it's the gas.

00:40:31.140 Because that's

00:40:32.240 a little harder

00:40:32.760 to source.

00:40:36.620 The North Sea

00:40:37.560 is running dry,

00:40:38.360 somebody says.

00:40:41.620 And Hungary

00:40:42.480 can still pipe that,

00:40:43.660 yeah.

00:40:44.340 So,

00:40:44.760 it makes you wonder

00:40:45.320 why it took so long.

00:40:46.680 And one of the

00:40:47.340 lessons that you

00:40:49.100 learn and relearn

00:40:50.700 all of your life

00:40:51.660 is that things

00:40:53.280 that seem essential

00:40:54.260 often are not.

00:40:56.180 Have you ever

00:40:56.620 been in a company

00:40:57.300 with a key employee

00:40:58.480 who if that one

00:40:59.820 employee left,

00:41:00.440 everything was

00:41:01.040 going to go to

00:41:01.500 hell? 0.94

00:41:02.380 And then that

00:41:02.860 one employee left.

00:41:04.860 And everything

00:41:05.500 was fine.

00:41:07.120 How many of you

00:41:07.920 have been in

00:41:08.220 that situation?

00:41:09.440 The key employee

00:41:10.180 left and everything

00:41:11.180 was fine.

00:41:13.040 Yep,

00:41:13.460 yes,

00:41:13.980 yes,

00:41:14.440 yep.

00:41:15.620 And look at all

00:41:16.180 the yeses going

00:41:16.860 by on locals.

00:41:19.240 Right.

00:41:20.600 So,

00:41:21.980 I feel like this

00:41:23.060 is another example

00:41:23.860 of that.

00:41:24.220 If you tell me

00:41:24.920 that,

00:41:25.720 no,

00:41:25.920 no,

00:41:26.080 no,

00:41:26.300 we cannot

00:41:26.900 find another

00:41:27.760 source for

00:41:28.420 25% of our

00:41:29.880 whatever,

00:41:32.620 unless it's,

00:41:33.540 you know,

00:41:33.860 rare earth

00:41:34.420 materials and

00:41:36.140 you have to do

00:41:37.040 it in a week,

00:41:37.980 I'm going to say

00:41:38.900 I feel like you

00:41:40.060 can always,

00:41:40.980 you can always

00:41:42.700 cut things by

00:41:43.500 25%.

00:41:44.640 It doesn't even

00:41:46.540 matter what the

00:41:47.000 category is.

00:41:48.280 Not always,

00:41:48.980 right?

00:41:49.120 But like 95%

00:41:51.120 of all situations

00:41:52.320 in the world,

00:41:54.060 you can cut

00:41:54.660 25% off it

00:41:55.920 and hardly

00:41:56.640 notice.

00:41:57.400 You'll make

00:41:57.720 adjustments.

00:42:01.900 All right.

00:42:04.720 Let's talk

00:42:05.380 about Putin's

00:42:06.020 health.

00:42:06.840 So that's in

00:42:07.380 the news again.

00:42:08.240 I would like to

00:42:09.000 remind you of

00:42:09.560 my record of

00:42:10.960 determining the

00:42:12.900 people's physical

00:42:14.440 health by looking

00:42:15.600 at them.

00:42:17.340 All right.

00:42:18.040 First time I did

00:42:18.980 this publicly

00:42:19.640 that I can

00:42:20.220 remember was I

00:42:22.940 said in the

00:42:23.360 2016 election

00:42:24.320 that Hillary 1.00

00:42:24.860 looked sick.

00:42:27.080 Does anybody

00:42:27.760 remember me

00:42:28.340 saying that a

00:42:28.840 lot?

00:42:29.700 That Hillary 1.00

00:42:30.080 looked sick

00:42:30.780 or drunk

00:42:32.180 or something.

00:42:33.100 And then she

00:42:33.600 did collapse

00:42:34.220 at the 9-11

00:42:34.900 event and there

00:42:35.640 was some kind

00:42:37.220 of health issue

00:42:38.360 that I don't

00:42:38.920 think has been

00:42:39.440 fully disclosed.

00:42:43.200 And would you

00:42:44.240 say that I was

00:42:44.900 correct in 2016

00:42:46.640 when I said

00:42:47.420 she looks

00:42:48.480 unhealthy?

00:42:51.320 Correct or

00:42:51.920 not correct?

00:42:53.540 Because many

00:42:54.020 and she had

00:42:54.780 that cough 0.90

00:42:55.280 that was weird

00:42:55.800 right?

00:42:56.460 It seems

00:42:57.240 correct.

00:42:58.300 You know

00:42:58.440 she had

00:42:58.780 walking

00:42:59.160 pneumonia or

00:42:59.760 something and

00:43:00.240 maybe I saw

00:43:01.160 it.

00:43:01.820 But I think

00:43:02.140 I was saying

00:43:02.600 it even

00:43:02.940 before the

00:43:03.480 pneumonia kicked

00:43:04.140 in.

00:43:04.820 Alleged

00:43:05.260 pneumonia.

00:43:06.700 Now so

00:43:07.160 that was my

00:43:07.680 first one.

00:43:08.100 I think that's

00:43:08.840 I'd give

00:43:09.700 myself a yes

00:43:10.660 on that.

00:43:11.540 Correct.

00:43:11.760 then I

00:43:15.260 also said

00:43:15.800 when Biden

00:43:16.340 was running

00:43:16.860 wait a minute

00:43:17.820 as many of

00:43:18.860 you did

00:43:19.180 he's clearly

00:43:20.540 mentally 1.00

00:43:21.000 incompetent. 0.96

00:43:22.740 And then I

00:43:23.380 heard from

00:43:23.760 somebody who

00:43:24.500 knew him

00:43:25.220 personally and

00:43:25.920 was in the

00:43:26.480 room with him

00:43:27.000 recently and

00:43:27.800 said you know

00:43:28.360 you're totally

00:43:28.860 wrong Scott.

00:43:30.500 I recently

00:43:31.500 talked to him

00:43:32.160 in person.

00:43:33.620 He's fine.

00:43:35.320 To which I

00:43:36.100 said I don't

00:43:38.100 think so.

00:43:38.600 I don't

00:43:42.060 think so.

00:43:43.700 And as

00:43:45.820 of today

00:43:46.440 wouldn't you

00:43:48.140 say I was

00:43:48.640 right?

00:43:49.560 That he's not

00:43:50.060 mentally capable

00:43:51.280 and that I

00:43:52.280 think he's

00:43:52.660 declined even

00:43:53.400 in the last

00:43:53.940 year in a

00:43:54.600 way that's

00:43:55.100 obvious to

00:43:55.700 most people.

00:43:57.220 So I think

00:43:57.700 I'm two for

00:43:58.180 two.

00:43:59.800 Would you

00:44:00.440 allow that

00:44:01.660 score to

00:44:03.000 stand?

00:44:03.500 Two for

00:44:03.780 two?

00:44:03.960 Two for

00:44:04.000 two?

00:44:06.180 Um

00:44:06.540 and now I

00:44:09.380 say that

00:44:09.740 Putin is 0.99

00:44:10.140 sick. 1.00

00:44:10.940 Now I'm 0.67

00:44:11.480 not going

00:44:11.760 to say he's

00:44:12.440 terminal.

00:44:13.780 I suppose

00:44:14.300 we're all

00:44:14.860 terminal.

00:44:16.240 But

00:44:16.640 there's

00:44:18.060 something wrong

00:44:18.580 with that

00:44:18.900 guy.

00:44:21.880 So I'm

00:44:22.460 going to

00:44:23.240 try to go

00:44:23.680 for three

00:44:24.140 for three.

00:44:24.740 There's just

00:44:25.060 something wrong

00:44:25.460 with that

00:44:25.720 guy.

00:44:26.300 Don't know

00:44:26.640 what it is.

00:44:27.240 Could be

00:44:27.560 his meds.

00:44:29.020 Maybe it's

00:44:29.820 not a bad

00:44:30.880 problem but

00:44:31.760 his meds are

00:44:32.500 causing him

00:44:32.980 to act

00:44:33.220 differently or

00:44:33.740 something.

00:44:34.560 I don't

00:44:34.740 know.

00:44:36.540 Well we'll

00:44:37.460 see.

00:44:39.560 Surprisingly the

00:44:40.660 DeLorean is 1.00

00:44:41.440 back.

00:44:42.460 Remember the

00:44:42.940 DeLorean with

00:44:44.480 the gull wing

00:44:45.220 doors and

00:44:45.980 back from the

00:44:46.980 future sort

00:44:47.700 of thing.

00:44:48.580 And I

00:44:49.880 guess the

00:44:50.380 founder of

00:44:51.120 the original

00:44:51.540 DeLorean got 0.96

00:44:52.360 busted for

00:44:53.140 selling cocaine

00:44:54.620 to finance his

00:44:55.820 car or

00:44:56.300 something like

00:44:56.740 that.

00:44:57.240 Was that

00:44:57.760 the story?

00:44:59.440 Anyway it's

00:45:01.520 coming back as

00:45:02.280 an electric

00:45:02.640 car and

00:45:04.820 has two

00:45:06.200 doors still

00:45:06.960 has that

00:45:07.260 gull wing

00:45:07.720 thing and

00:45:09.440 it would

00:45:10.380 compete with

00:45:11.020 a Tesla for

00:45:11.900 example.

00:45:13.060 But the

00:45:13.780 design is

00:45:14.380 really good.

00:45:17.020 So one of

00:45:17.960 the things that

00:45:18.340 the DeLorean did

00:45:19.040 well is it

00:45:19.500 looked cool.

00:45:20.960 It's one of

00:45:21.420 the things that

00:45:21.880 Musk got right

00:45:22.820 with his

00:45:23.320 original,

00:45:24.700 his first

00:45:25.760 electric car.

00:45:27.120 It looked

00:45:27.500 cool.

00:45:28.820 But I'm

00:45:29.980 not sure that

00:45:30.620 the Tesla

00:45:31.380 design in its

00:45:32.980 current form

00:45:33.920 people buy

00:45:36.340 because of

00:45:37.160 the outside

00:45:37.980 design.

00:45:39.520 Let me ask

00:45:40.000 you, how

00:45:40.820 many of you

00:45:41.220 think that a

00:45:42.360 regular Tesla,

00:45:43.660 let's not talk

00:45:44.620 about the

00:45:44.940 truck because

00:45:45.520 that's more of

00:45:45.960 a high design

00:45:46.520 situation, but

00:45:47.740 how many of you

00:45:48.200 think that the

00:45:48.720 ordinary Tesla

00:45:49.660 has a look

00:45:51.560 where you look

00:45:52.180 at it and

00:45:52.420 say,

00:45:52.680 hmm,

00:45:53.420 got to get

00:45:54.460 some of

00:45:54.760 that.

00:45:55.020 so it's

00:46:01.320 a mixed

00:46:01.640 bag of

00:46:02.720 saying,

00:46:03.040 a lot of

00:46:03.300 people are

00:46:03.600 saying it's

00:46:03.980 ugly, but

00:46:04.440 other people 0.68

00:46:04.840 are saying

00:46:05.240 they like

00:46:06.120 it.

00:46:09.120 Yeah.

00:46:10.040 So some

00:46:10.780 people are

00:46:11.100 saying it's

00:46:11.460 nice, some

00:46:12.500 people say

00:46:12.900 meh.

00:46:13.540 Now, at

00:46:14.180 one point I

00:46:14.700 said to

00:46:15.000 myself,

00:46:15.480 huh, I

00:46:16.660 wonder if

00:46:17.000 this was a

00:46:17.700 rare mistake

00:46:20.180 because you

00:46:21.780 could have

00:46:22.240 made it more

00:46:23.060 like a

00:46:23.500 DeLorean,

00:46:24.140 more sports

00:46:25.000 car-ish, but

00:46:26.300 on the other

00:46:26.820 hand, there

00:46:28.480 is a very

00:46:28.920 large percentage

00:46:29.660 of the public

00:46:30.140 that won't

00:46:30.600 buy something

00:46:31.260 that's too

00:46:31.680 flashy.

00:46:34.720 So I've

00:46:35.320 got a feeling

00:46:35.780 that if you

00:46:36.280 want to sell

00:46:36.660 cars to

00:46:37.360 regular people,

00:46:39.280 you have to

00:46:39.800 make them

00:46:40.240 regular

00:46:41.040 ordinary.

00:46:42.800 I think

00:46:43.480 we're too

00:46:44.080 into our

00:46:48.080 lifestyle and

00:46:49.340 the way we

00:46:49.860 present it.

00:46:51.220 You can't

00:46:51.820 take people

00:46:52.300 who want to

00:46:52.920 be under

00:46:53.280 the radar and

00:46:54.080 give them a

00:46:54.560 cool car

00:46:55.120 because they're

00:46:56.240 not going to

00:46:56.580 want it.

00:46:59.420 So I've

00:46:59.980 got a feeling

00:47:00.360 that the

00:47:00.700 DeLorean will 1.00

00:47:01.360 limit its

00:47:02.140 audience to

00:47:02.900 the high-end

00:47:04.060 performance

00:47:04.740 audience because

00:47:06.500 the average

00:47:06.940 mom and

00:47:07.540 dad just

00:47:08.100 want trunk

00:47:09.040 space.

00:47:13.580 And that,

00:47:14.540 ladies and 0.98

00:47:14.800 gentlemen,

00:47:15.560 is the

00:47:17.000 conclusion of

00:47:17.660 my prepared

00:47:18.240 remarks.

00:47:19.440 And I

00:47:20.080 would like

00:47:20.380 now a

00:47:21.080 medical rating.

00:47:22.960 if you're

00:47:23.540 joining me

00:47:24.060 late,

00:47:25.680 I'm on

00:47:26.580 the third

00:47:27.000 day of

00:47:27.280 the COVID,

00:47:27.940 still testing

00:47:28.660 positive,

00:47:29.220 just tested

00:47:29.660 myself before

00:47:31.060 the live stream

00:47:31.560 started.

00:47:32.980 And so I'm

00:47:33.940 infectious as a 0.81

00:47:34.900 mofo, but I 0.79

00:47:35.580 don't have any

00:47:36.100 obvious symptoms

00:47:37.320 that I can feel.

00:47:38.360 So here's the

00:47:38.880 question.

00:47:40.580 Could you

00:47:41.060 detect my

00:47:42.100 brain fog?

00:47:44.100 Go.

00:47:44.360 Go.

00:47:48.600 Locals are 1.00

00:47:49.160 saying no.

00:47:49.660 what do you

00:47:51.900 say,

00:47:52.200 YouTube?

00:47:52.620 Could you

00:47:53.000 detect my

00:47:53.720 brain fog?

00:47:57.520 I'm seeing

00:47:58.300 some yeses.

00:48:00.220 Seeing some

00:48:01.000 yeses.

00:48:03.300 How many of

00:48:04.220 you think that

00:48:04.900 the brain fog

00:48:06.060 detection could

00:48:07.500 be imaginary?

00:48:11.380 A lot of

00:48:12.140 yeses.

00:48:13.520 A lot of

00:48:14.280 yeses.

00:48:17.000 Yes, you

00:48:17.760 appear to be

00:48:18.420 unreasonable.

00:48:19.660 How many

00:48:20.160 think that?

00:48:21.600 Is there

00:48:22.200 anybody else

00:48:22.760 who thinks

00:48:23.240 that I was

00:48:24.300 more strident

00:48:25.960 or unreasonable

00:48:27.020 today?

00:48:31.460 Kind of

00:48:32.060 subjective.

00:48:33.500 Yeah.

00:48:34.100 All right.

00:48:34.580 Would it

00:48:34.900 make any

00:48:35.360 difference if

00:48:35.980 you knew

00:48:36.440 that I'm

00:48:38.760 also heavily

00:48:39.520 under the

00:48:40.000 influence of

00:48:40.580 marijuana?

00:48:41.000 I got this

00:48:45.640 new batch

00:48:46.720 recently that

00:48:48.440 has the

00:48:48.780 highest THC

00:48:49.720 concentration

00:48:50.460 I've ever

00:48:50.960 experienced.

00:48:52.360 39%.

00:48:52.960 Now, if

00:48:54.380 anybody's

00:48:55.260 familiar with

00:48:56.160 the field,

00:48:58.140 39% is

00:48:59.580 shocking.

00:49:00.660 I didn't even

00:49:01.180 know that was

00:49:01.580 even possible,

00:49:02.300 frankly.

00:49:03.200 30% is

00:49:04.280 sort of will

00:49:05.320 blow your 0.91

00:49:05.800 socks off.

00:49:06.400 If you're

00:49:08.560 not really

00:49:09.140 experienced,

00:49:09.780 you don't

00:49:10.000 want to go

00:49:10.300 over 30%.

00:49:11.300 So I didn't

00:49:11.760 know what I

00:49:12.160 was going to

00:49:12.480 get at 39%.

00:49:13.580 But it's

00:49:14.460 definitely

00:49:15.340 different.

00:49:17.080 It definitely

00:49:17.800 is quite a

00:49:19.820 charge.

00:49:24.020 Yeah, I

00:49:24.720 don't think

00:49:25.040 the fog is

00:49:25.560 made up.

00:49:26.220 So internally,

00:49:27.360 I feel like

00:49:28.880 I may have

00:49:30.020 some fog.

00:49:31.620 But I can't

00:49:32.520 tell yet in

00:49:33.220 terms of my

00:49:33.800 performance.

00:49:34.380 You don't

00:49:39.040 look well.

00:49:40.280 Well, I'm

00:49:40.560 not.

00:49:43.160 Did I just

00:49:43.960 tell you?

00:49:44.420 I've got a

00:49:45.440 terrible disease.

00:49:48.380 Apparently,

00:49:49.000 it's not that

00:49:49.400 terrible.

00:49:52.900 Maybe COVID

00:49:53.780 blocks caffeine

00:49:54.700 absorption.

00:49:55.320 You know

00:49:55.500 what?

00:49:56.260 So Jen

00:49:56.880 says maybe

00:49:57.580 COVID blocks

00:49:58.560 caffeine

00:49:59.100 absorption.

00:50:00.100 Now, I

00:50:00.400 don't think

00:50:00.740 that's true.

00:50:01.380 We probably

00:50:01.780 wouldn't have

00:50:02.120 noticed it.

00:50:02.780 But it

00:50:03.100 feels exactly

00:50:03.900 like that.

00:50:04.380 It feels

00:50:05.660 exactly like

00:50:06.460 I didn't

00:50:06.740 have coffee.

00:50:07.840 That's what

00:50:08.420 it feels

00:50:08.740 like.

00:50:12.320 So you're

00:50:13.060 saying you're

00:50:13.440 better isn't

00:50:14.020 necessarily

00:50:14.500 true.

00:50:14.840 No, my

00:50:15.460 internal sense

00:50:16.500 of how I

00:50:18.020 feel is

00:50:18.540 completely

00:50:18.940 better.

00:50:20.540 I do

00:50:21.240 have, I

00:50:22.680 would call

00:50:23.040 it maybe

00:50:23.520 like a

00:50:24.020 pressure or

00:50:24.900 something on

00:50:26.820 my brain.

00:50:28.680 Like, things

00:50:29.460 look different,

00:50:30.760 for sure.

00:50:31.540 anyway, it's

00:50:36.700 kind of

00:50:36.920 fascinating.

00:50:37.680 I would

00:50:37.900 just encourage

00:50:38.820 you not to

00:50:39.420 believe any

00:50:39.940 story of

00:50:40.560 somebody who

00:50:40.980 had a

00:50:41.460 miraculous

00:50:41.980 recovery from

00:50:42.820 COVID, because

00:50:43.960 they took

00:50:44.360 anything.

00:50:45.360 Because apparently

00:50:45.960 the symptoms

00:50:46.520 just do go

00:50:47.300 away all at

00:50:47.940 once when

00:50:48.780 they go away.

00:50:49.960 So you're

00:50:50.760 going to

00:50:50.980 blame or

00:50:51.780 credit whatever

00:50:52.680 you were taking

00:50:53.320 10 minutes

00:50:53.820 before they

00:50:54.280 went away.

00:50:54.680 and you

00:50:55.640 will be

00:50:55.940 wrong.

00:50:57.520 You always

00:50:58.100 get a brain

00:50:58.540 fog when

00:50:59.020 you have a

00:50:59.340 cold or a

00:50:59.760 fever.

00:51:01.180 You know,

00:51:02.360 honestly, it's

00:51:02.920 been 30 years

00:51:04.000 or more since

00:51:04.800 I had anything

00:51:05.400 that was like a

00:51:05.960 bad cold or

00:51:06.900 flu or anything

00:51:07.900 like that.

00:51:08.780 So I didn't

00:51:09.540 even know what

00:51:09.920 it felt like to

00:51:10.420 be sick. 0.97

00:51:11.440 I'd literally

00:51:12.060 forgotten what

00:51:12.700 it felt like to

00:51:14.140 feel bad.

00:51:15.880 I mean, I

00:51:16.340 guess that's the

00:51:16.820 good news.

00:51:19.000 All right, I

00:51:20.140 don't feel

00:51:20.760 depressed, because

00:51:22.860 I've heard that

00:51:23.340 some people have

00:51:24.140 symptoms of

00:51:25.640 depression, so I

00:51:27.520 don't feel that.

00:51:29.000 And here's the

00:51:29.960 weirdest part.

00:51:30.680 I think it

00:51:31.160 cured my

00:51:31.860 attention

00:51:34.560 deficit

00:51:35.060 disorder.

00:51:36.200 Now, I

00:51:36.420 don't have

00:51:36.800 actual diagnosis

00:51:38.240 of that, but

00:51:39.500 there's a time

00:51:40.060 of the day when

00:51:40.600 I just can't

00:51:41.220 concentrate.

00:51:42.460 I just can't

00:51:43.140 concentrate.

00:51:44.960 And yesterday,

00:51:47.400 I did an

00:51:48.120 experiment.

00:51:49.580 I said to

00:51:50.060 myself, I

00:51:50.580 wonder if I

00:51:50.960 could just sit

00:51:51.500 in the chair,

00:51:52.700 just sit here,

00:51:53.300 and be

00:51:54.540 satisfied.

00:51:56.620 Do nothing

00:51:57.300 else, just

00:51:57.740 sit here in

00:51:58.420 the chair.

00:51:59.860 And this is

00:52:00.640 something I've

00:52:01.120 tried lots of

00:52:01.820 times before,

00:52:03.060 because I

00:52:03.360 wanted to see

00:52:03.780 if maybe I

00:52:04.520 could get into

00:52:04.980 meditating again.

00:52:06.560 And I thought,

00:52:07.180 well, I'll just

00:52:07.600 try to sit

00:52:09.520 here and just

00:52:10.660 be happy.

00:52:12.520 I've never been

00:52:13.280 able to do it

00:52:14.060 until yesterday.

00:52:16.800 Yesterday, I

00:52:17.660 had the weird

00:52:18.200 experience, which

00:52:18.920 I reproduced a

00:52:19.740 number of times

00:52:20.280 during the day,

00:52:21.400 of saying, what

00:52:22.060 if I just

00:52:22.460 sit here?

00:52:23.920 Just sit

00:52:24.560 here.

00:52:25.620 And I would

00:52:26.180 just sit

00:52:26.620 there, and

00:52:28.960 I was totally

00:52:29.480 happy.

00:52:30.580 I've never

00:52:31.300 experienced that

00:52:32.000 before.

00:52:33.220 Never.

00:52:34.740 Now, I

00:52:35.160 think, yeah,

00:52:36.320 it was

00:52:36.520 outside.

00:52:37.480 One was

00:52:38.100 outside, but

00:52:39.700 not every time.

00:52:40.440 Once was

00:52:40.820 outside.

00:52:45.840 Well, I'm

00:52:46.520 always high, but

00:52:47.240 that doesn't

00:52:47.580 make a difference,

00:52:48.800 because I've

00:52:49.280 done the

00:52:49.580 experiment in

00:52:50.320 every condition.

00:52:51.420 So I know

00:52:51.740 that doesn't

00:52:52.120 make a

00:52:52.380 difference.

00:52:53.420 So my

00:52:53.800 natural brain

00:52:55.580 cycles are

00:52:56.980 running at

00:52:57.600 I don't know

00:53:00.700 how to compare

00:53:01.240 it to anybody

00:53:01.760 else's, right?

00:53:02.540 Because everybody

00:53:03.060 has their own

00:53:03.520 subjective thing

00:53:04.240 going on.

00:53:05.120 But my

00:53:05.760 subjective

00:53:07.100 experience of

00:53:08.040 what happens

00:53:08.480 in my head

00:53:09.080 is that when

00:53:10.240 I wake up in

00:53:10.820 the morning,

00:53:11.700 my clock speed

00:53:12.700 of my brain

00:53:13.320 is just right,

00:53:14.780 and I can get

00:53:15.680 a lot done,

00:53:16.100 I can concentrate.

00:53:16.780 By the

00:53:18.100 middle of

00:53:18.460 the day,

00:53:19.400 there are so

00:53:19.960 many things

00:53:20.440 happening

00:53:20.800 simultaneously

00:53:21.440 in my brain

00:53:22.420 that it's

00:53:23.580 hard to do

00:53:24.040 anything.

00:53:25.320 There's just

00:53:25.740 too much

00:53:26.080 crashing in

00:53:26.800 at the same

00:53:27.200 time.

00:53:27.960 You walk

00:53:28.540 outside.

00:53:29.380 If I open

00:53:29.960 this door

00:53:30.360 and walk

00:53:30.720 out, I

00:53:31.800 will be

00:53:32.100 met with

00:53:32.540 three new

00:53:33.140 variables.

00:53:34.580 Somebody

00:53:35.020 needs

00:53:35.380 something,

00:53:36.080 I found

00:53:36.560 out a new

00:53:37.000 thing,

00:53:37.380 the phone

00:53:37.700 rings,

00:53:38.820 that sort

00:53:39.660 of thing.

00:53:39.940 The dog

00:53:40.380 throws up

00:53:41.340 on the

00:53:41.540 ground.

00:53:42.940 So we're

00:53:44.900 overwhelmed with

00:53:45.700 all this

00:53:45.980 complexity.

00:53:48.220 And yesterday

00:53:48.800 I just sat

00:53:49.380 there and

00:53:49.960 didn't think

00:53:51.520 of any of

00:53:51.900 it.

00:53:53.080 Now, I

00:53:54.220 assume that's

00:53:54.840 brain damage.

00:53:56.500 I don't

00:53:57.180 think that's

00:53:57.640 like a cure.

00:53:58.900 I think it's

00:53:59.700 brain damage.

00:54:01.000 But I'm

00:54:01.580 hoping it's

00:54:02.020 temporary.

00:54:03.480 So I'm

00:54:04.880 going to try

00:54:05.280 doing some

00:54:06.600 cartooning

00:54:07.220 today, the

00:54:08.520 writing.

00:54:09.000 The writing's

00:54:09.580 the hard part.

00:54:10.880 And I'm

00:54:11.120 going to see

00:54:11.560 if anything

00:54:12.340 I write today

00:54:13.120 is funny.

00:54:13.720 that will

00:54:15.600 be the

00:54:15.880 test.

00:54:18.000 So we'll

00:54:18.580 see.

00:54:20.360 All right,

00:54:20.760 this, ladies 0.96

00:54:21.300 and gentlemen,

00:54:21.820 was the best

00:54:22.520 show you've

00:54:22.980 ever seen

00:54:23.540 in your

00:54:24.140 life.

00:54:24.480 I think

00:54:24.740 you'd

00:54:24.920 agree.

00:54:25.880 And I'll

00:54:26.440 keep you

00:54:26.780 informed on

00:54:27.480 my recovery

00:54:29.120 or non-recovery

00:54:30.640 as it goes.

00:54:32.320 And we'll

00:54:33.000 talk to you

00:54:33.540 tomorrow.

00:54:34.520 Bye for

00:54:35.720 now.

00:54:35.900 Bye.

00:55:04.520 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 31, 2022

Episode 1760 Scott Adams： Come Diagnose My Opinions As COVID-Addled Or Brilliant. I Need Help

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